Iowa Mental Health and The Law – Daniel Icenogle

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As a mental health professional, you not only deal with critical clinical matters with your clients – you must also stay up-to-date on seemingly ever-changing laws and procedures. Keeping up-to-date is essential in order to protect your clients and yourself.

In this comprehensive recording, you will gain an understanding of the right to treatment and to refuse treatment, informed consent, basic commitment procedures, legal and therapeutic therapist/patient boundaries, reporting requirements, issues with electronic record-keeping, and much more that will help you stay on top of issues that arise in everyday clinical situations.

1. Articulate policies for clinical practice on ethical issues such as restraints, seclusions and informed consent.
2. Utilize an ethical decision making framework to recognize, analyze, resolve and/or prevent ethical problems and dilemmas in your clinical practice.
3. Communicate the basic civil commitment procedures and determine the clinician’s role in each.
4. Establish ethical practices to ensure client safety, maintain confidentiality and obtain informed consent when utilizing telemental health services.
5. Recognize ethical challenges for clinicians to consider when responding to subpoenas, court orders and search warrants.
6. Identify the differences between legal and therapeutic boundary issues.

Disability Services For Children And Adults

Informed Consent And Decision-Making Tools

Right To Treatment And Right To Refuse Treatment

Voluntary Services And Admissions

Court Procedures For Commitment And Placement

Particular Issues With Electronic Records And Use Of The Internet

• Electronic records and mental health treatment record keeping
• Internet and online counseling: Ethical issues
• Social media: Ethical and marketing issues

Responding to Subpoenas, Court Orders

• Subpoenas
• Testimony in Court & Depositions
• Court Orders & Search Warrants

Mandated Disclosure of Mental Health Records

Reporting Requirements

• Minors
• Vulnerable Adults
• Duty to Warn

Therapists/Patient Boundaries

• Professional Boundary Issues and the Disciplinary Process